Your Brain Has No
Delete Button!
I’m taking a big, deep breath. I just spent three hours
editing a document. After which, I noticed that the table of contents updated
itself without my wanting it to. So, I deleted the old table and copied the one
I wanted into the document.
I wanted to see if the new, unformatted table would try to
update itself, so I saved the document, closed it, and the reopened it again,
watching to see if the table updated itself. I was relieved it didn’t. But I
didn’t realize the reason it didn’t was because the rest of the document was
gone. I discovered that what I saved was only the table of contents. The rest
of the document I had been working on all day had inadvertently been deleted.
I’m actually not sure how it happened, but now all I have left of the document
is the table of contents.
Deep breath. Deeper breath. Still not deep enough. My heart
is fluttering.
My entire day of work—lost. Why did that happen?
Well, you know me. I’m not one to think that things don’t
happen for a reason. Something was wrong with my intent or the direction of
what I had done to the document. Instead of being angry for the loss of work, I
should sit still and ask the simple question: What do I need to change about
how I approached my work today, so that tomorrow I won’t lose my work again? I
might as well get a fresh new look at the project.
In the days of our modern computers, I can’t remember the
last time I deleted a document without it being saved. I’m saving documents or
auto-saving every few minutes. I have back-ups on the Icloud, back-ups on my
computer, back-ups on my phone, and back-ups on my thumb drive. We typically
don’t lose work these days.
Is anything really deleted? Is what I did today lost
completely? We tend to think that only electronic equipment can save things,
but our minds have the capacity to memorize and reorganize at a miraculous
rate. I know a woman who must have everything she has ever read stored
somewhere in her brain. She knows something—usually more than anyone else in
the room—about almost everything you could mention. If she can remember almost
everything she sees or reads, then brains must have the capacity to store data
just like computers.
For instance, does a day go by when you don’t think about
your one true love? Can you remember Christmas when you were ten? Did something
special happen in your past that just won’t go away no matter how hard you try?
I have a few clients who come to a hypnotherapist hoping to
be able to erase an old relationship. The unfortunate news is—you can’t! You
can rewire your mind to think positive thoughts instead of negative ones when
you think of that person. But, there is no way that the mind can simply dump
memories. That is, unless, you have amnesia. Even then, doctors believe that
the memories are still hidden somewhere in your subconscious just waiting for
the right stimuli to cause a total recall.
Our brains have no delete button. You can’t go to the right
hand corner of your head and tap there, hoping to backspace away what happened
in the past. You must cope, deal, and restrategize with the information that is
already in your mind, in your DNA, and in your cellular memory. We have no
other choice.
Fortunately, there are ways to take old neuro pathways and
cause new results! I thank God every day for hypnotherapy, (NLP)
NeuroLinguistic Programming and (EMDR) Eye Movement Desensitization and
Reprocessing. All of these healing modalities help you rewire the brain. Even
pain can greatly diminish with one or more of these treatments. I have felt the
change that I speak about and greatly recommend these modalities of therapy.
Branches of these therapies also include: Parts therapy, Attachment theory and
therapy, and EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique).
Do a search in my blog for any of the above modalities or
search Google. If you are having trouble forgetting the past and waste more
than ten minutes a day reliving a part of your past, it’s time to try one of
the above therapies. You can change your life. The future must be in your
hands.
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Bo Sebastian is a Hypnotherapist and Life & Health
Coach, available for private sessions to QUIT SMOKING, Lose Weight, New Lap-Band
Hypnosis for Weight Loss, CHANGE YOUR MIND, CHANGE YOUR LIFE! at 615-400-2334
or www.bosebastian.com.
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